The Online Journalism Handbook by Paul Bradshaw

Author:Paul Bradshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

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AUDIO SLIDESHOWS

Audio slideshows can be a particularly powerful way to turn an audio interview into something engagingly audiovisual. Likewise, they can also be used to turn a standard picture gallery into something deeper and richer. And with many social networks and advertisers prioritising video, they can also be an easy way to create ‘video’ content.

Audio slideshows often base themselves around interviews: one person talking about their experiences over a slideshow of photographs provides an extra dimension to what we are hearing. The New York Times’s One in 8 Million, for example, used the form to tell a series of stories about individual New Yorkers from rookie cops to mambo dancers, while the Telegraph used a slideshow to illustrate an interview with the former athlete Denise Lewis about the Olympic gold of Jessica Ennis (see the section below on slideshows (p.180) to find links to all the examples mentioned here).

Another common use of audio slideshows is to accompany a series of photographs with narration from the photographer, or a photographic expert. Examples include photographer Steve Bloom narrating a collection of his images, South Africa under Apartheid in the 1970s, and judges narrating award-winning wildlife photography in Global Views – Lives and Landscapes.

Art and culture work well for the same reason: David Dawson worked as assistant to the painter Lucian Freud for 20 years, and narrates imagery of his art and working environment in one slideshow for the BBC, while in a Guardian piece an interview with the head of an immersive theatre company is run over striking imagery from their latest production.

Audio slideshows are particularly good for bringing historical imagery to life: the Telegraph interviewed ten D-Day veterans to narrate an audio slideshow marking the anniversary of the event, while BBC Wales’s The Welsh in Patagonia, 150 Years On sees two descendants of those who migrated to the area narrate a mix of old and new images of the area and its Welsh settlers.

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